Jesus describes a landowner who goes out into the marketplace all day, searching for workers. His question to the people in the marketplace is not, “Why are you lazy?” but,...
The Gospel shares the story of a servant faced with an unpayable debt. He pleads for patience, and while it might seem like the master would punish him, something remarkable...
In today’s Gospel, Jesus shows how wounds can be healed. When someone offends us, we have a guideline for our reaction: our first task is not to gossip or retaliate....
Today’s liturgy of the Word calls us to think and live differently from people of our time. For centuries, we Christians have been the avant-garde of the world in science,...
In the relative safety of Caesarea Philippi, Jesus asks his disciples two questions: first, what popular opinion about his him is; second, who they think he is. Popular opinion was...
In today's Gospel (Mt 15:21-28), Jesus encounters a Canaanite woman who begs him to free her daughter from demonic possession. At first, Jesus remains silent and explains that his mission...
Today, the Gospel presents us with the theme of faith. And it does so in a very graphic way with an example that we can all understand. Believing is somehow...
At the outset, presenting Jesus coming into the desert followed by a great multitude of people who abandoned the city, the evangelist wants us to see in him the new...
By pure accident a man discovers a treasure in the field he is working. He hides it, goes to sell everything he has and buys that field. The poor farmer,...
Jesus describes the Kingdom of God through three parables in today’s Gospel reading. We will focus today on the first story: that of the good wheat and the weeds, which...
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